Sentence examples for healthy surplus from inspiring English sources

A healthy surplus was building and it unnerved him.

"We intend to leave him a healthy surplus in the budget".

The government's spending spree has transformed a healthy surplus into an increasingly worrying deficit.

We can do that while still running a healthy surplus to bear down on our debt.

But, surprisingly, there is a healthy surplus of candidates, which is good news for a league that continues to expand.

All supermarkets must ensure safe and healthy surplus food is redistributed to those on low incomes and to actively work with charities to make this happen.

Universities accumulate healthy surpluses to cope with volatility, such as fluctuating student numbers.

And it would imply that as in the United States, funds from countries with healthy surpluses would flow in some measure to help the weaker ones with deficits.

With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here — from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future surpluses, to nine straight years of deficits, including the $1.3 trillion shortfall in 2010.

The pre-budget sales pitch was all about sharing the pain for long term national gain – that if we all "chip away" and "share the burden" and "spread the load", etc, etc, then healthy surpluses and a more prosperous economic future beckons.

The Cassidy thesis: In a post last week, I suggested that multi-year budget projections sometimes aren't worth the paper they are printed on, citing as an example the infamous Clinton OMB budget projection from 2000, which foresaw a decade of healthy surpluses.